Jan Perkowski wrote a book in 1969 based on the Polish folklore in Canada. In the beginning of the book a description can be found on how to kill a vampire so it won’t return to life. This story describes vampires called Vjeszczi and Wupji. A Wupji is a child that is born with two front teeth. As the child grows up, there are specific ways to stop it from becoming a vampire. If the methods do not work, then killing the vampire is the only solution. One can cut the head off of the corpse and then place it between its feet in the coffin. Then the vampire's blood is given to the victims. If the vampire somehow arises, one should open the coffin and stick a nail between its eyes. Jan Perkowski also wrote about how the vampire picks its victims. It awakens at midnight and eats their clothes and flesh and then goes to the nearest church to ring the bell. The one that hears the bell is said to be the next victim.

Rangda by SkyJaguar

The people who live in Louisiana are familiar with the myth about the Fifollet, even thou it originates from African American. The Fifollet is known to be an unbaptized child who has died. The child comes back to life as a spirit and murders children by sucking their blood. Their home after death is the nearest swamp where they are seen as a form of light. His appearance is ghostlike and he is said to hover above the warm swamp waters in the form of a glowing orb during dormant periods.

Among the Wyandots was the legend of the hooh-strah-dooh. A amalgam between what today is known as zombie and vampire. The hooh-strah-dooh was an evil spirit that inhabited recently dead bodies and caused the corpse to rise from the tomb and devour the living. An effective ward for the hooh-strah-dooh was believed to be the redbud. The Jumlin is widely referred to the Cherokee Nation as the father of vampires.

Loogaroo by Lyn Gibson

The stories of the Loogaroo are widespread through the Caribbean Islands and Louisiana in the United States. The Loogaroo is an example of how a vampire belief can result from a combination of beliefs, a mixture of French and African voodoo. The term Loogaroo possibly comes from the French loup-garou (meaning 'werewolf') and is common in the culture of Mauritius. During the late 18th and 19th century there was a widespread belief in vampires in parts of New England, Rhode Island and Eastern Connecticut. There are many documented cases of families disinterring loved ones and removing their hearts in the belief that the deceased was a vampire who was responsible for sickness and death in the family, although the term vampire was never used to describe the ones that passed away. The deadly disease tuberculosis (or "consumption" as it was known at the time), was believed to be caused by nightly visitations on the part of a dead family member who had died of tuberculosis themselves. The most famous, and most recently recorded, case of suspected vampirism is that of nineteen-year-old Mercy Brown, who died in Exeter, Rhode Island in 1892. Her father, assisted by the family physician, removed her from her tomb two months after her death and her heart was cut out and burnt to ashes.

When the Loogaroo chooses her prey she will feed from them while they sleep, and if she takes too much blood and kills her victim it is said that if the victim does not turn into a Loogaroo himself then he will perish, leaving his killer to inhabit his skin. The Loogaroo is said to practice witchcraft or Voodoo, any of her victims blood that is not consumed or used in black art rituals for evil. In order to expose the Loogaroo, villagers would place a pile of rice at the village crossroads and the Loogaroo would be obligated to gather each grain, similar to the European legends. The villagers would then destroy the Loogaroo’s skin with salt while she was consumed by her task.

In Mexico it is believed that the Chupacabra drink the blood and eats the organs of animals, mostly goats, and leave them for dead. It is reported that the Chupacabra can have three different forms: a lizard creature, four feet tall, with a description familiar to the dinosaurs. The second appearance is the one that looks like an evil kangaroo. The third is a specific breed of a canine that also resembles a reptile. This creature isn't identifiable, because when witnesses have seen it, they had no idea what it was.

In South America, Suriname is the place where a vampire legend was born and developed. The Asema is a unique vampire who appears to be a human during the day just like an ordinary human. When the night falls, it leaves it's skin and becomes a blue ball of light. The Asema then goes to the native's homes and sucks their blood. There is a chance that the human can survive the attack, and there are ways to ward off the vampire. Garlic is said to keep the Asema away as well as a mixture of seeds and nails scattered in the yard outside of the house. People even believe that by drinking a blend of herbs they think makes their blood taste awful. There is a way to identify the Asema in human form so they can stop it from committing its horrific deeds.

Soucouyant by Laura Ferreira

Aloe vera hung backwards behind or near a door was thought to ward off vampiric beings in South American superstition. Trinidad and Tobago is famous for the female vampire-like monsters the Soucouyant, and Colombia has the lore about the Tunda and Patasola. In Chile exist the folk tales about the the bloodsucking snake known as the Peuchen. Aztec mythology is filled with tales about the Cihuateteo, skeletal-faced spirits of those who died in childbirth, stole children and entered into sexual liaisons with the living, driving them insane.